Three Alabama Seniors Win Scholarships from Morris, King & Hodge, P.C., for Essays on Dangers of Texting While Driving Huntsville-based Morris, King & Hodge, P.C., has announced the winners of the law firm’s fifth annual driver safety scholarship contest. Three high school seniors will share a total of $4,200 in…

The law firm of Morris King & Hodge, P.C., is pleased to announce the presentation of $4,200 in scholarship money to three Alabama high school seniors who wrote about the dangers of distracted driving. Participants in the law firm’s inaugural Drivers Safety Scholarship Fund essay contest were asked to write…

Texting and Driving: One of the Worst Decisions You Can Make Every day eleven teens die because of texting and driving. In fact, texting and driving makes up 25% of all car accidents. So the question is, what can we do to stop this? Would as many people text and…

Better to be safe than sorry Almost being a victim of a texting while driving accident, I can assure that no text in the world is worth coming close to death. My whole life flashed in front of my eyes as the car coming from the opposite direction hit mine…

December 1st, 2015. 17 years old. And just like every other 17 year old, my phone is with me at all times. Over the past month I have sent over 1000 text messages, but rest assured none of those texts were sent behind the wheel. I am lucky enough to…

“On my way.” Three words. Three simple words that can end a life in seconds. When spoken, these three words are harmless, but if sent by a driver through a text message, they become a weapon. To be exact, these words carry a risk 23 times greater than that of…

Driver Safety Scholarship Fund Essay Imagine two buses filled with screaming school children. Both buses are overturned and no one can escape because they are being pinned to the ground by each other, a pickup truck, and a tractor trailer. As the screams of the bleeding children saturate the air…

Did you know drivers are 23 times more likely to be in an accident if texting while driving? What is even scarier is that 77% of young drivers are confident in their ability to text while driving! Too many young people do not see how sending one simple message can…